I've been licensed since 1993 and I've been almost exclusively a CW operator. Recently I've begun spending more time on SSB. This morning I worked a DL special event station (DR11BUGA) and many stations were signing '44s' with him. What does 44 mean? I've never heard it on CW... On the web I found; "44 - Answer promptly by wire"

I'm going to assume here that your code skills are good and you really did hear '44', in which case the answer is no idea. If however you copied 'HH' at the end of a QSO that particular phrase was used from about 1935 to 1945 by all German stations, it means Heil Hitler.

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